oh, and I would much prefer a shotgun to sleep with, rather than a katana, cause it's one of the best home-defense weapon, and it would allow me to knock back any zombie/raptors that invade so I can get to my better weapons for killing said zombies/raptors.

Johnthemage wrote:... you do know that the show was canceled iw... right?

oh, and I would much prefer a shotgun to sleep with, rather than a katana, cause it's one of the best home-defense weapon, and it would allow me to knock back any zombie/raptors that invade so I can get to my better weapons for killing said zombies/raptors.

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The only defense against velociraptors are your own velociraptors. But then you run the risk of ending up like Indira Ghandi.

Johnthemage wrote:... you do know that the show was canceled iw... right?

oh, and I would much prefer a shotgun to sleep with, rather than a katana, cause it's one of the best home-defense weapon, and it would allow me to knock back any zombie/raptors that invade so I can get to my better weapons for killing said zombies/raptors.

.The only defense against velociraptors are your own velociraptors. But then you run the risk of ending up like Indira Ghandi.

Indira Gandhi wasn't killed by velociraptors...

SecondTalon wrote:A pile of shit can call itself a delicious pie, but that doesn't make it true.

yeah, and i wasn't the third shooter on the grassy knoll.
@lani: i dont know much about the computer side of things, i.e. who the hell the guy in the bed is, what GNU is, but it combined a swordfight with what i recognise to be a pun, so it wins all.

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Johnthemage wrote:... you do know that the show was canceled iw... right?

oh, and I would much prefer a shotgun to sleep with, rather than a katana, cause it's one of the best home-defense weapon, and it would allow me to knock back any zombie/raptors that invade so I can get to my better weapons for killing said zombies/raptors.

.The only defense against velociraptors are your own velociraptors. But then you run the risk of ending up like Indira Ghandi.

After much laughing at this xkcd comic, a friend and I had the silly idea of sending rms a katana (via Amazon, to the FSF office address). Amazingly, not only did rms let us know it was received, but someone at FSF even posted pictures!

After much laughing at this xkcd comic, a friend and I had the silly idea of sending rms a katana (via Amazon, to the FSF office address). Amazingly, not only did rms let us know it was received, but someone at FSF even posted pictures!

HOLY HELL. IT'S FUCKING RICHARD STALLMAN WITH A FUCKING KATANA.

XKCD is real life.

argyl3: My idea of being a rebel is splitting infinitives.Alisto: Rebel without a clause?

After much laughing at this xkcd comic, a friend and I had the silly idea of sending rms a katana (via Amazon, to the FSF office address). Amazingly, not only did rms let us know it was received, but someone at FSF even posted pictures!

I didn't know whether to put this in the article's section or here: This is a post about an article that refers to this xkcd comic. Anyways, the article is http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/21889 from the Yale Daily News and is about a talk given by Richard Stallman. The final paragraph of the article reads "Before the debate began, four student pranksters dressed in ninja garb jumped in front of Stallman as he prepared to take the stage. After posing for pictures with him, they ran out of the room amid audience laughter. The prank was inspired by an XKCD.com comic depicting a failed assassination attempt on Stallman by four masked men from Microsoft." I will leave as an exercise to see how many statements are wrong in that paragraph.

That entire article is full of wrongness, starting with the title. Stallman was there to talk about DRM, and only mentioned free software to the limited extent that other people brought it up. And the statement that students thought that Stallman was being extreme is also untrue. This is one of the few subjects he's reasonable on. The newsguy just got that idea from only talking to the chairman of the conservative party. Stallman didn't say to repeal the entire DMCA as the article says, just the "circumvention device" part. And David Manners-Weber is misidentified as David Weber, among more mistakes in the article. Typical YDN not caring about the YPU and giving the article to freshmen.

Despite the bad article, Stallman gave a good speech, although I may be biased because he was speaking on one of the few issues I agree with him in.The whole thing was made extra-worthwhile with me getting in my best one-liner of the day. Stallman was handing out GPLv3 stickers, and I asked him if he had any GPLv2 stickers left. Unfortunately, no such stickers were ever made.

Someone I kneew asked a '1337' linux guy how much hard disk space he should partition for linux on a 100 Gig Drive if he wanted to use it for development. The linux guy responded with 100 Gig, and insisted that any less would be stupid, even after the other guy said he wanted to play windows games...

I get the feeling that he sleeps with a broadsword he cannot lift under his bed.

nahtanoj999 wrote:That entire article is full of wrongness, starting with the title. Stallman was there to talk about DRM, and only mentioned free software to the limited extent that other people brought it up. And the statement that students thought that Stallman was being extreme is also untrue. This is one of the few subjects he's reasonable on. The newsguy just got that idea from only talking to the chairman of the conservative party. Stallman didn't say to repeal the entire DMCA as the article says, just the "circumvention device" part. And David Manners-Weber is misidentified as David Weber, among more mistakes in the article. Typical YDN not caring about the YPU and giving the article to freshmen.

I didn't go to the debate, so my only triggers were that the original XKCD comic was a prank, and it involved 2, not 4 ninjas. Also, from my experience with the YDN it isn't just the YPU they don't care about. Their general reporting is often just poor. And the really sad thing is that at this point they are the best newspaper in New Haven.

After much laughing at this xkcd comic, a friend and I had the silly idea of sending rms a katana (via Amazon, to the FSF office address). Amazingly, not only did rms let us know it was received, but someone at FSF even posted pictures!

Oh please. Those are totally photoshopped. You can see the shadows are all wrong on the sword and there are JPEG artefacts on rms's hair.

JoshuaZ wrote:I didn't go to the debate, so my only triggers were that the original XKCD comic was a prank, and it involved 2, not 4 ninjas. Also, from my experience with the YDN it isn't just the YPU they don't care about. Their general reporting is often just poor. And the really sad thing is that at this point they are the best newspaper in New Haven.

Yeah, they weren't armed and the alt-text implied that they weren't actually Microsoft employees.

nahtanoj999 wrote:That entire article is full of wrongness, starting with the title. Stallman was there to talk about DRM, and only mentioned free software to the limited extent that other people brought it up. And the statement that students thought that Stallman was being extreme is also untrue. This is one of the few subjects he's reasonable on. The newsguy just got that idea from only talking to the chairman of the conservative party. Stallman didn't say to repeal the entire DMCA as the article says, just the "circumvention device" part. And David Manners-Weber is misidentified as David Weber, among more mistakes in the article. Typical YDN not caring about the YPU and giving the article to freshmen.

I didn't go to the debate, so my only triggers were that the original XKCD comic was a prank, and it involved 2, not 4 ninjas. Also, from my experience with the YDN it isn't just the YPU they don't care about. Their general reporting is often just poor. And the really sad thing is that at this point they are the best newspaper in New Haven.

New Haven? I live in CT!

This is a great necropost, btw, I absolutely loved this comic!LOL, I see myself before going to bed:"Hey dad, can I borrow the katana?""Why you ask? Because a GNU dawn is about to arise, and I must be prepared for battle! Did you remember to forget to feed the piranhas in the pond? OK, just checking, Dad.

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